All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 36
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A 50 year timeline of spaceflight
4 October: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the World's first orbiting artificial satellite 12 April: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is...
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NewsSPUTNIK 50: UK science minister green lights British astronaut missions study
A study into UK astronaut missions in the next decade is expecetd to be given the go-head by the UK government’s minister for science today
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Dutch team unveils fatigue-immune fibre-metal laminate for wings
A new fibre-metal laminate material is being promoted as an anti-fatigue technology for aircraft wings by its creators, the Netherlands'...
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Docking vehicle software compatible with ISS
The compatibility of the European Space Agency's final flight software version for its first Automatic Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has been successfully...
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Comment - Only tourism can open up space travel
Only tourism can open the final frontier Space tourism is the only hope for the economic exploitation of space in the next 50 years. Half a century...
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Angara core booster prepared for 2008 test firing
Preparations for test firing the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's Angara rocket's common core booster (CCB) first stage...
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Russian space industry rises again
The Bear shines on ROB COPPINGER / LONDON Fifty years ago this week, Russia launched the first satellite spacecraft and began the space...
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ULA Atlas V to form part of COTS challenge
United Launch Alliance's Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket could form part of a bid for funds from NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)...
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NewsRomania's suborbital Stabilo completes second unmanned flight
The Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association's manned Stabilo vehicle has successfully completed its second unmanned flight
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NewsVIDEO: Watch exclusive images from the cockpit of the new Alenia Aeronautica C-27J Spartan as it descends and lands at Rome Ciampino airport
Flight technical reporter Rob Coppinger took the video from the jump seat in Alenia Aeronautica's own C-27J Spartan as it flew into Rome Ciampino airport on 21 September
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US Army eyes miniature weapons for Future Combat System air vehicles
Work is under way to design a new range of munitions specifically for use by the unmanned air vehicle element of the US Army's Future Combat Systems programme,...
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Hackers hardwalled from 787
Protection against hacking has been built into the Boeing 787 because it will be in almost continuous contact with the ground via satellite for performance...
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European Defence Agency selects quadrotor design for micro air vehicle demonstration
The European Defence Agency has selected a quadrotor design for its €4 million ($5.58 million) micro air vehicle...
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Transatlantic team celebrates micro air vehicle test success
A tail-sitting coaxial contra-rotating tractor propeller micro air vehicle (MAV) with a 30cm (12in) span Zimmermann wing has been successfully test flown...
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EADS to expand Sharc UAV’s flight envelope
EADS Innovation Works plans to expand the flight envelope of its co-axial...
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Technology notes 25 September 2007
Early control design saves money AVIONICS Developing an aircraft's flight-control system at an earlier stage to avoid later costly redesign is the...
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MTU to test engine core active control in 2009
An engine core using active technologies is to be tested at MTU's Munich facility in the third quarter of 2009 under the four-year, €71 million ($98.5 million)...
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European industry strategy plans for emissions results
Members of a European project developing a strategy to reduce aeroengine emissions are seeking funding for research into advanced combustor technology, computational...
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Airbus A330-200 freighter could air launch space tourists says study
Three air launch concepts for suborbital vehicle systems could gain European Union funding, as a similar project ending this October proposes a costed